Climbing Up On Salisbury Hill...?
May. 10th, 2013 08:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76We went to Salisbury Cathedral today. Good god, that's an impressive structure. There really isn't anything on that scale in California, either in grandiosity or age. (A tiny bit of me always looks at half the architecture here in the UK and thinks "One good quake, and that'd come tumbling down." I am such a Californian.) It's always a bit odd walking around cathedrals over here, because I'm never sure if I'm being disrespectful in walking over where people are interred beneath the floor. I mean, if you go to a graveyard, you just don't walk over the graves....
Anyway, very big building. Very beautiful. Very impressive. Has a very nifty working medieval clock, which Wonderful Husband was quite taken with, and, oh, by the way, the freaking Magna Carta.
That sound you just heard? That was the echoes of my brain being broken. I have seen one of the four surviving copies of the Magna Carta with my own eyes. I have been less than two inches away from it.
GAH.
Nothing quite like this in America. Not even on the East Coast.
Tomorrow, Wonderful Husband and I head to North Wales, there to meet up with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
toothycat. We're stopping in Stratford-upon-Avon to break up the drive. Just since, y'know, it's on our route anyway....
Totally broken.
Anyway, very big building. Very beautiful. Very impressive. Has a very nifty working medieval clock, which Wonderful Husband was quite taken with, and, oh, by the way, the freaking Magna Carta.
That sound you just heard? That was the echoes of my brain being broken. I have seen one of the four surviving copies of the Magna Carta with my own eyes. I have been less than two inches away from it.
GAH.
Nothing quite like this in America. Not even on the East Coast.
Tomorrow, Wonderful Husband and I head to North Wales, there to meet up with
toothycat. We're stopping in Stratford-upon-Avon to break up the drive. Just since, y'know, it's on our route anyway....Totally broken.
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Date: 2013-05-11 05:45 am (UTC)Wind was blowing time stood still
Eagle flew out of the night
MAGNA CARTAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Standing stones in random cow fields. Yes.
I do the same thing, when I've been in Europe. All that stone and brick. Come right down in a quake... Well, a lot of it. Some of the older stuff might have actually already survived shakeups even in places we don't expect them. And building sturdy for one thing sometimes does make it sturdy for other things.